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Modeling the exposure of wild fish to endocrine active chemicals: Potential linkages of total estrogenicity to field-observed intersex
(Elsevier, 2018-08-01)Decades of studies on endocrine disruption have suggested the need to manage the release of key estrogens from municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). However, the proposed thresholds are below the detection limits ... -
Modeling the Modal Shift towards a More Sustainable Transport by Stated Preference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
(MDPI, 2021-01-01)The need to gain a comprehensive understanding of road travelers’ choice of mode and their perceptions of using sustainable urban mobility modes have evolved to shape the form of future transport planning and policymaking. ... -
Modelling and optimal energy-saving control of automotive air-conditioning and refrigeration systems
(Sage, 2017-02-01)Air-conditioning and refrigeration systems are extensively adopted in homes, industry and vehicles. An important step in achieving a better performance and a higher energy efficiency for air-conditioning and refrigeration ... -
Modelling and optimization of a pilot-scale entrained-flow gasifier using artificial neural networks
(Elsevier, 2019-12-01)This paper explores the construction and validation of an artificial neural network (ANN) in order to accurately and efficiently predict the performance of a pilot-scale gasifier unit. This ANN model consists of multiple ... -
Modelling farmer choices for water security measures in the Litani river basin in Lebanon
(Elsevier, 2019-01-10)Lebanon is facing an increasing water supply deficit due to the increasing demand for freshwater, decreasing surface and groundwater resources and malfunctioning water governance structures. Technological and policy changes ... -
Modelling Interactions Between Forest Pest Invasions And Human Decisions Regarding Firewood Transport Restrictions
(Public Library of Science, 2014-04-15)The invasion of nonnative, wood-boring insects such as the Asian longhorned beetle (A. glabripennis) and the emerald ash borer (A. planipennis) is a serious ecological and economic threat to Canadian deciduous and mixed-wood ... -
Modelling Legacy Nitrogen Dynamics in the Transboundary Lake Erie Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-16)Lake Erie is a source of drinking water, recreation, and commercial opportunity for both the United States and Canada, making the protection of its water quality essential. In the past decades, Lake Erie's ecosystems have ... -
Modelling reduction and enrichment effects of urban stormwater best management practices on phosphorus at the watershed scale
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-18)A variety of best management practices (BMPs) are being implemented to attenuate the increasing eutrophication risk caused by excessive phosphorus (P) export via urban stormwater runoff. However, P reduction performance ... -
Modelling Science Trustworthiness Under Publish Or Perish Pressure
(Royal Society, The, 2018-01-01)Scientific publication is immensely important to the scientific endeavour. There is, however, concern that rewarding scientists chiefly on publication creates a perverse incentive, allowing careless and fraudulent conduct ... -
Modelling the micro-damage process zone during cortical bone fracture
(Elsevier, 2020-02-01)Cortical bone employs intrinsic toughening mechanisms to delay crack growth initiation and propagation hence increasing its fracture toughness. Computational models of the bone fracture process though do not explicitly ... -
The moderating effects of reported pre-pandemic social anxiety, symptom impairment, and current stressors on mental health and affiliative adjustment during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-29)Background and objectives Individuals with social anxiety (SA) have well-established fears of being negatively evaluated and exposing self-perceived flaws to others. However, the unique impacts of pre-existing SA on ... -
A modified sliding-mode observer design with application to diffusion equation
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-02-27)In many physical systems, the system's full state cannot be measured. An observer is designed to reconstruct the state from measurements. Disturbances often contribute to the dynamics of the system, and the designed observer ... -
Modular relations of the Tutte symmetric function
(Elsevier, 2022-04)For a graph G, its Tutte symmetric function XBG generalizes both the Tutte polynomial TG and the chromatic symmetric function XG. We may also consider XB as a map from the t-extended Hopf algebra G[t] of labelled graphs ... -
The modulation of leguminous plant ethylene levels by symbiotic rhizobia played a role in the evolution of the nodulation process
(Elsevier, 2018-12)Ethylene plays an important role in regulating the rhizobial nodulation process. Consequently, numerous strains of rhizobia possess the ability to decrease plant ethylene levels by the expression of the enzyme 1-aminocyc ... -
mol2chemfig, a tool for rendering chemical structures from molfile or SMILES format to LATE X code
(Springer, 2012-10-02)Displaying chemical structures in LATE X documents currently requires either hand-coding of the structures using one of several LATE X packages, or the inclusion of finished graphics files produced with an external drawing ... -
Molecular Architecture Manipulation in Free Radical Copolymerization: An Advanced Monte Carlo Approach to Screening Copolymer Chains with Various Comonomer Sequence Arrangements
(Wiley, 2016-07-01)A Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulation approach was adopted in this study to capture evolutionary events in the course of free radical copolymerization, through which batch and starved-feed semibatch processes were compared. ... -
Molecular Beacon Lighting up on Graphene Oxide
(American Chemical Society, 2012-05-01)A molecular beacon (MB) is comprised of a fluorophore and a quencher linked by a DNA hairpin. MBs have been widely used for homogeneous DNA detection. In addition to molecular quenchers, many nanomaterials such as graphene ... -
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers with DNA Aptamer Fragments as Macromonomers
(American Chemical Society, 2016-03-16)Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are produced in the presence of a template molecule. After removing the template, the cavity can selectively rebind the template. MIPs are attractive functional materials with a low ... -
Molybdenum isotope constraints on the origin of vanadium hyper-enrichments in Ediacaran-Phanerozoic marine mudrocks
(MDPI, 2020-11-30)Vanadium is an important redox-sensitive trace metal for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Modern organic-rich sediments persistently contain sediment V enrichments <500 μg/g, but many ancient marine organic-rich mudrocks ... -
Monitoring lake ice phenology from CYGNSS: Algorithm development and assessment using Qinghai Lake, Tibet Plateau, as a case study
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-14)This study introduces the first use of Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) for monitoring lake ice phenology. This is demonstrated using Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau, as a case study. Signal-to-Noise ...